It was one of the books that amazed me as a child. ٰThe cult of A-bomb in that far future and the elite telepaths hidden and other now well known science fiction cliches that later well used in other media, this book was a wonder for me in my childhood.
Specially because when I was reading this book, it was the time of first Persian Gulf War where allies were raining fire on our neighbour (Iraq) and the skies of my city in Iran was full of dark black-smoke infested clouds from the burning oil wells, and the rain was black and dense and greasy.
With that and the never ending current of data on missiles and bombs from local TV, at that time the book seemed very much a real account of near future history to me. 

I very much like to translate it to Persian.